Tian Yeyou has been staying in Heitu Port all the year round, and the old members of these special operations battalions basically recognize him, and he is also familiar with these veterans who enlisted in Heitu Port in the early days. Tian Yeyou smiled: "I know you, when you two brothers came to Heitu Port together, your brother is still working as a foreman in the mine, right?"

"Yes, yes, last time I went back to visit relatives, my brother said that when he got married, Chief Tian also went to drink a glass of wine. Ruan Jun nodded again and again, for the naturalized people, this is a great face.

"When the company commander is ...... Not bad, not bad, there is a future!" Tian Yeyou met his old friend in another country, and he would not be stingy to say a few words of encouragement and praise.

"The chief has won the award! By the way, if there is anything that needs to be done at the moment, please instruct the chief!" Although Tian Yeyou's encouragement was very official, it was very useful to Ruan Jun, and he hurriedly expressed his attitude.

Tian Yeyou said: "You first organize people to unload all the tools on the ship, and then prepare a place for our group of people to live, I will understand the situation today, plan the route, and then enter the mountain tomorrow." ”

The people and horses that Tian Yeyou brought over this time are all apprentices that he has successively accepted in recent years. As far as the field of mining exploration and exploitation is concerned, he will definitely become the grandfather of this industry in a few years, and the many large-scale mineral deposits he excavated for Haihan in his lifetime will become legends that future generations of practitioners will talk about. Of course, these achievements are inseparable from the support of the big database brought by the crossing, and with the relevant approximate location records of the ore veins, it is much easier for practitioners like Tian Yeyou to explore mineral deposits.

Although the gold reserves in the Jinguashi area are not small, they are not all concentrated in one or two places, but a number of small ore veins scattered in many places in the mountains, so in terms of mining methods, it is unlikely to be like Tiandu, Shilu, and Heitugang, grabbing a large ore vein to excavate, and a pit is enough to dig for more than 100 years or even longer. Scattered mining will bring more difficulties to management and transportation, and as the maker of the mining plan, Tian Yeyu must take into account all possible situations.

In addition, there is a difference of three or four hundred years between the current era and the time when Tian Yeyou came here, and what Tian Yeyou saw at the beginning was a mining area that had been mined for a hundred years, and there was a certain gap between the topography and the current undeveloped natural conditions, and it was not an easy task to re-determine the location of the ore vein.

That night, Tian Yeyou carefully learned about the situation of the surrounding environment from Ruan Jun and the others, who arrived in advance, although there was no threat of foreign enemies here for the time being, but there were really many dangers in the primeval jungle. In addition, there are five or six miles of mountain roads from the sea to the mining area, the terrain of this area is more complex, and it is unlikely to directly build a rail transportation system from the mine to the sea like Shilu and Heitu Port, so similar to mineral processing and smelting, workers' accommodation, supporting living facilities, etc., must be built near the mining area to improve the work efficiency of the mine after it is put into production.

The next day, Ruan Jun led a team to escort Tian Yeyou and others into the mountains to prospect. Half a day after their departure, the first group of migrants arrived on the shore of Shen'ao Bay, along with a number of tools and building materials. This group of immigrants came from the Penghu resettlement base, and Qian Tiandun did not even have time to send the immigrants to the two strongholds of Tamsui River Estuary and Jilong Port, which he had just occupied, so he sent the immigrants to the gold mine first according to the arrangement of the Executive Committee. Although it is not possible to mine gold immediately, the requirement of the Executive Committee is to have enough local labour ready to start production at any time. Before that, they will take on the task of building docks and roads.

Although the scale of gold mining in the Jinguashi area cannot be compared with the previous large mines, it is planned that at least 2 to 3,000 miners will be arranged here to maintain daily production, plus family members, security personnel, management personnel, etc., and the permanent population of this area will be maintained at around 4,000 people in the future.

At the same time, the naval units involved in the operation did not stop to rest, their task was not only to cover the landing of the army, but also to survey the northern part of Taiwan along the coastline after the capture of Jilong Harbor. The purpose of the operation was twofold, first, to verify and correct the maps currently used by the Navy and the Ministry of Shipping, and second, to clear the Spanish settlement that might remain on the east coast of the island of Taiwan.

According to historical accounts and the confessions of the captives, the Spanish colonizers had attacked the Kamalan tribe in the Lanyang Plain in Taitung a year earlier and seized de facto control of the area. Over the next year, some immigrants were resettled in the area, but it is not known if they had fled the settlement after learning that Chicken Coop Harbor had been captured by the enemy. Although these immigrants may not have the ability to threaten the mining areas in the north, they are a hidden danger for Haihan after all, and the military and the bigwigs of the executive committee will not be completely reassured unless they are cleaned up.

However, at present, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture are not very interested in developing the Lanyang Plain, which will later be the Yilan County area of Taiwan, because the areas currently controlled by Haihan on the western coast of Taiwan can at least accommodate tens of thousands of migrants, and the security pressure will not be as great as on the east coast. Due to the lack of a natural harbor on the east coast of Taiwan, it is also difficult for the military to deploy permanent maritime armed forces here, and the army, which has to quarrel with the executive committee for several days every time it expands, is even more reluctant to disperse its limited forces and deploy them to these small places in the corners and corners.

On March 13, the navy arrived at the mouth of Lanyang Creek and found a colonizer-built village not far upstream. But as expected, most of the settlers have been left behind, leaving only about 20 people who do not want to return to Luzon. The navy met no resistance, and the immigrants, who already knew what was happening, obediently chose to surrender. Of course, if the Haihan people did not come, they probably would not have been able to settle here for too long, because the Kamarans, who had a blood feud with the colonists, would surely come back from the mountains to liquidate these invaders once they knew that the Spanish armed forces had withdrawn from here. At that time, most of these immigrants, who are outnumbered, will also end up in a foreign land.

As for the local indigenous Kamalan tribe, Haihan has no intention of actively approaching or co-opting them, because according to the Spanish account, the Kamalam are more aggressive and more ferocious than the Pingpu natives who generally live in the coastal plains, and the reason why the Spaniards went to war against them was because all the passengers and crew of a Spanish merchant ship stranded here were killed by the indigenous warriors. Haihan has occupied many areas of the coastline of the island of Taiwan from south to north in a short period of time, and now it simply does not have the energy to deal with the indigenous people of these non-occupied areas. In any case, the shipbuilding capacity of these natives is extremely poor, and the boats that go out to sea to fish are still at the level of canoes, which are not enough to threaten the Haihan settlements beyond the scope of their daily activities.

Haihan's operation in Taiwan has been carried out very smoothly since October last year, from surveying the Muddy Water Creek to later selecting the Kaohsiung area as the main target, and then moving north along the coastline to attack the Spanish strongholds. Although the long coastline in the east is still unowned, it is true that there will be no other threatening competitors in the short term.

Although there were still many voices of opposition and skepticism in the early stage of the operation, holding that the development of Taiwan after the occupation of Penghu was controversial, after all, the population of the island of Taiwan is very small, the infrastructure facilities are almost zero, and the resources required to implement the development are extremely large, which seems to be contrary to Haihan's plan to rapidly expand northward. In particular, after the Ministry of Industry reopened the gold mining project in Taipei's chicken cage area, those who questioned the excessive military expenditure on the attack on Taipei also obediently shut their mouths -- no matter how large the military expenditure is, it cannot be as large as a whole gold mine buried in the ground that has not yet been mined.

The frequent military movements of Haihan in the past nearly half a year did not completely hide the eyes of the Ming army in Fujian, and the military observers of the Ming army stationed at the Penghu base did not eat for nothing; the frequent entry and exit of warships in the port and the large mobilization of various military supplies were obviously signs of military action. It's just that before Haihan announced it himself, they didn't know where the real goal of the Haihan army was. Although they knew that Haihan might make further moves on the island of Taiwan, they really couldn't imagine that not long after the Haihan people took Kaohsiung, they would hit the idea of the Spaniards in the north.

However, the degree of cooperation between the two sides has been very deep, and the Fujian government does not have to worry about Haihan's secret poking and prodding actions to be detrimental to the areas under its rule. Haihan invested a lot of business in Fujian, especially in Zhangquan and Zhangquan, and it did not do Haihan any benefit to mess up Fujian, and the Fujian government knew very well that the Haihan people were only interested in the population and market of the Ming Dynasty, and as for land, it seemed that it was enough to have a port convenient for trade. Moreover, the Haihan people attach great importance to the same ancestor and ancestry, and are not as difficult to get close to as the Western Fan, whether it is trade or other aspects, they have always taken care of the Ming people, which has been quite good evaluation in Fujian official and non-governmental. The Haihan people, including the naturalized people who worked for the Haihan, were even more accepted in Zhangzhou and Quanzhou than in Guangzhou.

For Xu Jiaqi, a military representative stationed in Penghu, this was indeed the best errand he had ever earned since joining the army. If he was still a little careful about living on the land of the Haihan people at the beginning, after a long time, Xu Jiaqi felt that it was much easier and more interesting than leading troops to fight, and his personal treatment was really not bad.

The residence of the military observers of the Ming Dynasty in Penghu was used a long time ago, and this place was still under the jurisdiction of the Ming Dynasty. Of course, the food and clothing of the military observers here are all solved by themselves, and Haihan will not bear these expenses. However, this is just a drizzle for the Xu family, which controls more than seventy percent of Fujian's maritime trade.

Xu Jiaqi's daily work is to observe the daily operation of the Penghu base, such as the maintenance of naval ships, the training of special operations battalions, and the transfer of materials and personnel at the port and wharf. As for Haihan's military operations with foreign countries, such as sending troops to Tainan to occupy Kaohsiung Port, it was necessary to apply to Qian Tiandun, the local supreme commander of Penghu, and only after he agreed could he go to the front line with the army to observe the battle. Of course, with Haihan's past combat methods and achievements, such a battlefield observation can be said to be not too dangerous, and Xu Jiaqi will also follow to play soy sauce as long as he has the opportunity to see Haihan's advanced tactics.

If the original purpose of sending military observers was to play a certain role in prevention and surveillance while learning advanced military technology from the Haihan people, then these two purposes have basically lost their effectiveness.

A high-ranking officer of the Ming Dynasty like Xu Jiaqi has been dealing with the Haihan military for a long time, so he naturally knows that the weapons sold by the Haihan people and the tactics they teach are all inferior goods that have been ambushed. As for the first-class goodies, of course, they kept them for themselves. Although the Fujian military pays a high price for Haihan's arms and equipment every year, it is easy to see that the weapons bought by the Haihan army are backward weapons that are no longer used by the Haihan army. Of course, for the Ming army, these weapons are still very advanced, and they also have obvious advantages in performance over the weapons supervised by the Ministry of War, and for Xu Xinsu, who lacks a sense of security, this is still a necessity worth spending a lot of money on.

Of course, the advanced weapons equipped by the Haihan Army do not mean that they are completely unavailable, as long as they can afford a large price, at least they can still get a few rifles. However, the breech-loading rifle structure used by the Haihan army was significantly different from the breech arquebus and flintlock pistol sold to the Ming army, and it was technically difficult to imitate. This is not only a matter of parts and assembly accuracy, the weapons used by Haihan in service have improved in terms of materials and processing technology, even if the craftsmen on the Ming side can imitate the exact same rifle by hand, there will still be a significant gap in actual performance. Moreover, the gunpowder used in Haihan weapons has always been an object that cannot be imitated by Ming craftsmen, which has an inevitable impact on the performance of weapons.

After a long time, the Ming army will die of this heart, and what should be bought still has to be bought, as for the coveted advanced rifles, it can only wait for the replacement of the weapons of the Haihan Army. The rifle is only a relatively difficult imitation in Haihan's weapons and equipment, and it is more troublesome to imitate other weapons.